A Quote by Richard Peck

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Richard Peck

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After Cheek Cheeks Four Just Observed Other Out Run Tell Times Trouble Turn Turn The Other Cheek Turned

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Richard Peck
American - Novelist
Born: April 10, 1934

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

Charles Barkley

We have a lot of villains in the world, all right? And the Catholic doctrine says turn the other cheek, the Christian doctrine. But if you turn the other cheek, you could be annihilated. So when is it justifiable to defend yourself and take aggressive action in that regard, like dropping drones on people?

Bill O'Reilly

Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.

Malcolm X

Often, my liberal Canadian brethren will claim that 'Canada doesn't get involved in foreign affairs or wars overseas. We turn the other cheek.' No. Canada doesn't have the military might to exercise any option other than to remain uninvolved. They aren't turning the other cheek. They're pulling a Sweden.

Steven Crowder

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

Anne Ellis

I think that any black man who teaches black people to turn the other cheek and suffer peacefully after they've been turning the cheek and suffering peacefully for 400 years in a land of bondage, under the most cruel, inhuman and wicked slavemaster that any people have ever been under, he is doing those people an injustice, and he's a traitor to his own people.

Malcolm X

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

Kenny Rogers

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

Malcolm X

The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

Malcolm X

They call him the Streak, he likes to turn the other cheek. He's always making the news, wearing just his tennis shoes.

Ray Stevens

To turn the other cheek is to teach would-be cheats that cheating pays.

Peter Singer

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

John Lydon

Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.

Malcolm X

I really don't turn the other cheek. So when I feel like I'm being attacked, I don't back down.